There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
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Aristotle
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About Aristotle
Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings span the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the arts. As the founder of the Peripatetic school of philosophy in the Lyceum in Athens, he began the wider Aristotelian tradition that followed, which set the groundwork for the development of modern science.
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Hope is a waking dream.
The secret to humor is surprise.
Hope is a waking dream.
Hope is the dream of a waking man.
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under ce…
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighb…